Crestone Conglomerate
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Beyond our habits and the systems of separation from which they rise and are fed is the truth of our existence: we are One with all that is. We are in the midst of what can, if we cooperate in co-creation, be a seismic shift from the lead weight of separation consciousness to the uplifting reality of Unity. Are we willing to invite our souls to lie down in that grass and move beyond the language, ideas, and actions that feed separation? Am I?
Are we willing to set aside our habits of division and othering and come to a feast that honors All Life and commits to finding ways forward in cooperation and communion with one another, with Mother Earth and all her creatures? Am I?
In this evolutionary time when change is upon us at warp speed and the world we’ve known is crumbling, which path will we choose? Will we set aside our souls to enter the battlefields of competition and survival? Or will we invite our souls to lie down in the grass and listen? To self. To one another. To Gaia. To the cosmos.
At that macro level, the choice seems so clear, so obvious, even easy. But as we’ve all heard, the devil is in the details. It’s in looking at the micro, the choices we make with every step and every breath, that the opportunity exists to call forth and co-create Unity. To gather. Together.
The daily choices of life – what we say and to whom, what we do, how we be, what we consume, where we invest (time, energy, capital) – reflect which path we’ve chosen. The systems of separation have given us templates that define success and give us the steps it requires to ‘be successful’. As I look out at that world its so-called success doesn’t look so good to these eyes.
How is it that all the drops of water flow in the creek? Together. How is that the varied elements in our Crestone Conglomerate rocks came together and live as in beauty as one? What does Nature have to teach us about success?
This wasn’t the track I began writing earlier this morning when I revisited questions from last week’s post that I’d carried forward into my week along with the intention that they inform, show me opportunities for weaving threads of unity into the fabric of life. Indeed, they did so, showing me where I bristle and (over)react and where I’m invited to grow more fully into my BEing as one of the One. Pointing to my misaligned micro choices.
I noticed the prevalence of language that separates – beating, battling, controlling, and so much more: a colleague ‘battling’ grasshoppers in the garden; a friend sharing a book about ‘beating’ cancer (and an angel friend who pointed out the violent language of the title); my own swats at pesky mosquitos and, even worse, a snarky reaction to her well-intentioned communication. No matter how well intentioned, thoughtful, organic, et cetera, each maintains the status quo of separation. Of control. Of dominance. Of winning and losing.
All too often we think (and we’re told) that we must do big things to change the world. I disagree. I think we need a groundswell of little things to wake up to who we BE: to shift our language; to examine our choices and align them with what the world we want to create; to seek out allies to collaborate with; to listen and respond to all Life with an open heart. To harmonize inside and out.
May we each find our path to the Field that Rumi calls us to and, as my friend, author Rivera Sun suggests in The Dandelion Insurrection: Be kind. Be connected. Be unafraid.
Morning at Cottonwood Creek